William Wilkie Collins, The Frozen Deep — Second Scene… (1866)
“ Saying those words, he threw down the empty box, and seated himself on the nearest chest, without looking to see how the dice had fallen.Crayford examined them. "Six!" he exclaimed. "There! you have a second chance, in spite of yourself. You are neither under nor over—you throw again." ”
William Wilkie Collins, The Frozen Deep — Second Scene… (1866)
“ But what is to become of those who have not got the use of their limbs? Some of us must stay here, and take care of the sick."Everybody admitted that this was true."So we get back again," said the captain, "to the old question—Who among the able-bodied is to go? and who is to stay? Captain Ebsworth says, and I say, let chance decide it. Here are dice. The numbers run as high as twelve—double sixes. All who throw under six, stay; all who throw over six, go. Officers of the 'Wanderer' and the 'Sea-mew,' do you agree to that way of meeting the difficulty?" ”
William Wilkie Collins, The Frozen Deep — Second Scene… (1866)
“ The winter is not far off, game is getting scarcer and scarcer, our stock of provisions is running low, and the sick—especially, I am sorry to say, the sick in the 'Wanderer's' hut—are increasing in number day by day. We must look to our own lives, and to the lives of those who are dependent on us; and we have no time to lose."The officers echoed the words cheerfully. ”
